Donald Young

What grabs me about Donald Young is the long arc of his story. Crowned the world's No. 1 junior back in 2005 and once ranked as high as No. 38 on the ATP tour, he carried the weight of teenage hype for years. What I admire most isn't a single match but his second act: rather than clinging to a fading tennis identity, he reinvented himself as a professional pickleball player and kept competing. That willingness to start over in a new sport, ego set aside, tells me more about his character than any ranking ever could. I read him as a quietly stubborn lifer of an athlete.

Name (English)

Donald Young

Name (Japanese)

ドナルド・ヤング

Reading

どなるど・やんぐ

Born

July 23, 1989 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

tennis player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0

Tags

• Illinois
• tennis player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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